About the Role
We are looking for an Engineering Manager (Platforms) who will lead and manage a team of engineers to build internal and customer facing platforms, systems, APIs and product features. As engineering manager you’ll work closely with a cross functional engineering and programming team to create accountability and clarity and maintain a strong team spirit and culture. You’ll help research and develop new products, build project budgets and oversee the successful execution of projects throughout the year.
Responsibilities:
Provide insight and manage all technology related aspects with presentations and communications at senior management and CxO levels
Work across product, design, business, sales, and marketing teams to bring products to market.
Deliver on the engineering strategy set by the CIO, CTO, Chief Architect and VP of Product.
Recruit high-quality engineering talent for the team
Able to navigate fast moving and unstructured startup environment, and set engineering quality standards for the success of the business, but able to make difficult prioritizations
Provide feedback to the C Suite on the progress of engineering, state of products and setbacks.
Manage the engineering organization’s cash flow and oversees important buying and spending decisions around key tools and technologies
Qualifications:
10+ years in Software Engineering, including 3+ years leading engineering teams
Manage a cross-functional product team in creation of SaaS applications
Capable of recruiting new hires, identifying skills gaps and providing growth opportunities for the engineering team.
Experience in implementing structures around people in the engineering organization, such as establishing processes for promotions and hiring
Build an empowering engineering culture that delivers high satisfaction and retention rates of key personnel
Designs clear and measurable performance metrics for the team
Strong ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing their solutions
Experience working with major public clouds and with leveraging a wide range of cloud services
Ideally, good experience with Kubernetes infrastructure at scale
Ideally, good experience with ML/AI frameworks and infrastructure